gEDA-user: connecting symbols that look nothing like their footprint

[John Griessen]

Meador, Ryan D wrote:
  laying out symbols to be logical rather than
> reflect the actual look of the device. 


is the only option for me to redraw
the symbol to have 8 pins and then connect the ones that should be connected
on the schematic?


You can redo the symbol so it looks the same, but yes, to get a layout netlist 
that requires to hook up all D (drain) pins before saying it is complete will 
require 8 pins in the symbol.   To get what you want, you can make some of them 
invisible though.   The pin number to name pair is needed in the netlist to get 
a layout that has all D pins connected, and that is the mechanism.

John G